Administrator Guide
Your INI parameters will look something like the following:
Printer=LPT1 \
Name="HP LaserJet 4000" \
PrinterID="HP LaserJet 4000 Series PCL" \
Enabled=yes \
EnableLPD=yes
NOTE: The PrinterID is the exact text of the Windows printer driver name, so if a printer driver is named HP LaserJet 4000
Series PCL in Windows, then it must be exactly the same in the PrinterID eld in the INI parameters including capitalizations and
spaces.
Conguring ThinPrint
No ThinPrint specic conguration is available on the thin clients. Thus to be able to use ThinPrint, users must rst set up their printers
according to the user documentation, and then congure ThinPrint on the thin client using the Printer Setup dialog box.
To congure the ThinPrint, use the following guidelines:
• Use the Printer Identication eld to enter a printer class (you can change the printer name as needed).
• Printer IDs are assigned (depending on the physical port) as follows:
– COM1 = 1
– COM2 = 2
– LPT1 = 3 — USB printers are detected automatically on LPT1
– LPT2 = 4
– LPD0 = 5– The LPD Queue name is transmitted as the printer name; the Printer Identication as class
– LPD1 = 6 — The LPD Queue name is transmitted as the printer name; the Printer Identication as class
– LPD2 = 7 — The LPD Queue name is transmitted as the printer name; the Printer Identication as class
– LPD3 = 8 — The LPD Queue name is transmitted as the printer name; the Printer Identication as class
– SMB1 = 9 — In the form \\host\printershare
– SMB2 = 10
– SMB3 = 11
– SMB4 = 12
To install the relevant ThinPrint product on the server use the following guidelines:
• Printer Objects Created Manually by the Administrator — After you install.print Engine, create a printer object on the server to use
the native driver and ThinPort as a printer port. You can use any protocol (TCP, RDP or ICA) because ThinOS has.print clients for all of
the protocols. The printer object needs to observe ThinPrint naming conventions, for example, HPLJ5#_:2, in which case print jobs are
sent to the local printer that has ID number .2 by referring to.print client port ID. If no ID number is present, the.print client sends the
print job to the printer set as current.
• Printer Objects Created Automatically by ThinPrint AutoConnect — When using ThinPrint AutoConnect, the thin client identies
with the thin client ID number 84 and thus is recognized as a thin client without a local spooler. You can also set up a template on the
server that uses a native driver example, HPLJ5) and ThinPort, and then name this template as you want in the form _#AnyName.
You can then make sure that the rules on ThinPrint Autoconnect [1] have been set to assign the desired local printers to use this server
template. The assigned printer will then be shown in the user session using the HPLJ5 driver and ThinPort; it is named automatically
according to ThinPrint naming convention with the printer name from the client side included. Alternatively, you can also dene a
template name according to the client printer name (replace.AnyName. with printer name 4. and 5. above for example, _#HP Laserjet 5
so that the local printer object.HP Laserjet 5. is mapped to this template without any rules dened on the ThinPrint Autoconnect.
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Examples of common printing congurations